Winter

Well hello! Sorry for the lack of posts...I've been on vacation and it has been hard to make myself blog! I have a few pics to post from when I was home visiting family and friends in VA but first wanted to share some winter (or lack of it) pics.

To tell you the truth - we haven't had much of a winter this year! Last year we had over 100 inches of snow by this time and this year we've barely had 30.

Remember this last year? Oh how I miss it!

It doesn't even feel like we've even had 30 inches because as soon as it snows...it melts! Our backyard has looked like this for most of the winter :( Yuck.

Matt has still been out skiing and we have escaped to the mountains to get a little snow fix since we have none at our house. A few weeks ago we hiked up Camel's Hump with our friends Sarah and Joe (and of course the puppies we invited too).

Matt entertains Willow to keep her from barking at the top...

Not tempted to do this in the middle of winter...

The view! Note how there's no snow in the valley....

It was windy on top :)

21 weeks at 4083 feet!

Willow explores :)

When I returned from VA we had just enough snow that stuck around to cross country ski on the golf course behind our house. It's a good winter exercise alternative for a non-downhill skiing pregnant lady - I just wish it would stick around a bit longer!

OK - that's all I have for you right now! I'll post soon on my VA adventures :) Happy Monday!

xo!

Lake Placid

We've made a resolution to take a mini-trip every year for Matt's birthday. Mid-April is a great time for taking a trip because it is the off season around here and we can do fun things for cheap! Last year we went to Montreal. This weekend we went to explore Lake Placid.

We decided to go for just one night since we had to leave Willow at the kennel and because it's just not that far away.

Friday night we went out with some friends. I wore a new necklace Mom and Meg bought for me :) Isn't it pretty?

We left Saturday morning for Lake Placid. We had to take the ferry across the lake...It was Matt's first time riding on a ferry in a car. What an adventure :) He thoroughly enjoyed it!

When we arrived on Saturday, it was cold and windy. No different than weather in Vermont. COME ON SPRING! We planned to ski on Sunday at Whiteface, the mountain where the Olympic ski events occurred in 1980 and that actually has the largest vertical drop on the east coast. The weather was only supposed to get colder, wetter, and just plain worse for Sunday so we decided to ski for the afternoon on Saturday. The chairlift to the summit was open and we braved the weather just to say we'd been to the top.

The town of Lake Placid actually lines the shores of Mirror Lake (Lake Placid is next to it). Our hotel had a nice little view of Mirror Lake.

Lake Placid is a super cute town.

The lake was definitely still frozen. Brrrr.

We went out to a delicious dinner and I fell in love with this funky lighting. I apologize for the iphone picture.

This morning we went to the Olympic Center. Lake Placid has hosted the winter games twice. The first time was in 1932 (only the 3rd winter games ever). The second was in 1980. The Olympic Center houses the hockey/ice skating rinks (where the event Miracle on Ice occurred, as the US men's team beat the Russians to advance to the finals - they went on to win the gold medal). We did a little tour of the museum. Here are the pics....

Hope you had a great weekend!

xo

Weekend Update

Happy Sunday everyone! Did you spend a lot of time this weekend watching the Masters? I can't help but think about how different it looks there than it does outside my window. Oh well. We'll get there. It was a gorgeous weekend here in Vermont. The temps FINALLY topped 50 degrees, climbing to 62 today! We had plenty of sunshine as well. After spending a weekend moving, Matt and I were itching to get out and enjoy the weather.

Saturday we did some skiing.

You know it's sunny when you see something like this waiting in the lift line :)

We climbed to the top of the fire tower (at the top of the resort) to check out the views.

I hesitated a bit looking at the ladder and thinking about climbing in my ski boots.

It was worth it - the views were spectacular. We counted at least 6 other ski resorts in view! Wow.

Saturday night cousin and some other friends came over for cocktail hour to see the house. We got a good glimpse of how the house would feel with a 4 year old wandering around - we'll have to figure something out with all these stairs :) Wish I had a video!

Sunday we switched gears (hehe...literally) to spring and went for a bike ride. There's an awesome bike path less than half a mile from our new house so we wanted to check it out.

We also did some (desperately needed) work in our new yard :) It has three things in abundance.

Trees. There are 20 in the backyard alone. I can only imagine what fall will be like.

When you have 20 trees in your backyard, you also get acorns. We filled 6 large trash bags with acorns and leaves and finished about half the yard.

Sticks. Again, there are 20 trees.

One thing it doesn't have (yet) is grass....Hm. We'll have to wait and see.

We did manage to uncover some early signs of spring :)

xo!